This page is a listing of archived materials presented as part of my active work in digital curation and outreach to participating communities:
2016
- April 24, 2016 – Preserving Your Digital Life (with Krista White, Digital Humanities Librarian, Rutgers University Libraries)
Presentation sponsored by the Association for the Library Collection & Technical Services. Our stories as individuals and as members of a community are preserved in each of our homes, in our family histories, and in life stories—not just in libraries, archives, and museums. Today, many of us record and keep these stories in digital formats, often on our smartphones. The ability to easily create audio and video recordings leads to deep and rich documentation of events that may be personally important but may also have regional or national significance. Preserving these narratives for our families and for future generations means considering how we create the files and how we store them. This presentation will help people get started by answering the question: What steps can we take now to make the ensure the best possibility of retaining these important files into the future?
2014
- May 9, 2014 – Don’t Panic!: The Digital Curator’s guide to the data format methodology
Presentation to Data Curation course students, introducing them to basic concepts and methodologies for digital data handling, as well as motivations behind the recent “big data” trend.
- June, 2014 – From Reels to Bytes: Lessons learned in preserving the Jazz Oral Histories
Presentation given at the pre conference workshop for the 2014 Association for Recorded Sound Collections in Chapel Hill, NC. A narrative of the many lessons learned as Rutgers University Libraries embarked on one of its first digital preservation projects.
2012
- March, 2012 – RUresearch Presentation • Research Data and the Digital Curation Lifecycle
A presentation that updates and expands on the Digital Curation brown bag, but focuses specifically on applying the Digital Curation Lifecycle model to Research Data. Presented as part of a training session for research data evaluation teams, as part of the deployment of RUresearch.
2010
- November 4, 2010 – AMIA/IASA 2010 • Wrappers and Codecs: A Survey of Selection Strategies
A discussion of digital preservation container formats and codecs used by a few leading organizations on this front, including Library of Congress and Stanford University. Organized by Chris Lacinack of Media Preservation Solutions, and co-presented alongside Carl Fleischhauer of LoC and Hannah Frost at Stanford.
2009:
- October 30, 2009 – NJVid Technical Objectives Briefing, as presented at the 2009 MARAC Conference in Jersey City, NJ
- October 30, 2009 – White paper: “The Case for Large File Support in FEDORA/Duraspace Object Management Architectures” (101KB, PDF File)Description here.
- August 28, 2009 – Archival Master – an RUcore case study (PDF)
Submitted for inclusion to FEDORA Preservation wiki. Co-authored with Ron Jantz, Digital Library Architect, Rutgers University Libraries. - August 20, 2009 – Technical Overview: NJVid/RUcore video platform
Updates existing video codec standards and describes differences between open content and commercial videos. - August 17, 2009 – Software Release Notes for RUcore 5.0
Co-authored with Jeffery Triggs and Sho Nakagama - August 7, 2009 – “Standard Codecs and Settings for Presentation Formats and Preservation Datastreams In the NJVid Portal, and RUcore Platform” (PDF) Latest revision of a standards document for archiving and delivering video content in streaming formats, as applied to NJVid.
- June 19, 2009 – NJVID: Discussion of Technical Underpinnings.
Same visual format as UMDNJ, however this presentation focuses more on FEDORA, how it fits into our repository technology, and its benefits and challenges. Development timeline updated. - April 30, 2009: Digital Curation – Preserving the History of the Here and Now.
Brown bag presentation on the field of digital curation, basic concepts and challenges faced in preserving digital objects. - April 28, 2009: NJVid: A Community Video Architecure based on Open Source Technologies.
Presented at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey’s Digital Storage Architecture Group.
2008:
- April 23, 2008: NJVID Presentation, Internet2 Spring Member Meeting.
Archive on the Internet2 website of the initial pre-launch presentation of the NJVid project, including goals and proposed architecture.
2007:
- November 2007: Rutgers SCILS Internet Technology Initiative Undergraduate Course.
Archive of supporting materials in a talk I gave to students in this course.
The following presentations are older, and may reference specifications that require updating to reflect advances, learned lessons and present technologies. Still, some of the information remains useful, and of course, these materials also have some historical significance.
- A Brief Overview of Digitizing Techniques. Introductory slide show that accompanied a daylong “bootcamp” for librarians, archivists and curators who were just getting involved in digitziation for the first time. Presented October 2006.
- Digital imaging Basics and Standards (PDF). A primer for digitization policies, one of the first documents created as part of our digital repository initiative at Rutgers University Libraries. Hardware specs require updating.